How we got a 200-tonne turbine past the Taleban
At various stages in Army life, officers are given theoretical tests to stop them from falling asleep. They normally involve rescuing villages from volcanoes or moving tanks up the Amazon using canoes. It is the nature of said Army life that occasionally the theory becomes reality.
How do you move a 200-tonne hydroelectric turbine to a remote corner of Afghanistan? You can't fly it - there is no airstrip. There is a road, of sorts, but only in places and it is probably mined. Oh, and we have trucks, but they were made for the M1. They get testy in the sand.… Seguir leyendo »